mecca

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Well San Francisco, which is the tech mecca, looks pretty dilapidated.

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joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia; located in western Saudi Arabia; as the birthplace of Muhammad it is the holiest city of Islam

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noun

joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia; located in western Saudi Arabia; as the birthplace of Muhammad it is the holiest city of Islam

noun

a place that attracts many visitors; "New York is a mecca for young artists"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mecca.

noun

joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia; located in western Saudi Arabia; as the birthplace of Muhammad it is the holiest city of Islam

noun

a place that attracts many visitors; "New York is a mecca for young artists"

Example sentences

Well San Francisco, which is the tech mecca, looks pretty dilapidated.

Yes, I know Austin is a tech mecca of the midwest, but there's a cultural problem in the whole state that stories like these point to.

Switzerland is a "banking mecca" because of its privacy laws, which encourage the corrupt from around the world to park their money in Swiss banks.

A comment system in particular is like mecca for spammers, who are constantly, relentlessly trying to take advantage of such systems.

New York, America's supposed mecca of culture and a truly international city, has airports whose decrepitness puts lesser cities to shame.

Creativity thrives in an environment of diversity, and San Francisco became a mecca for creative software people because it was already a mecca for artists, hippies and people of all races and creeds, not because it was packed to the gills with iPhone developers in ironic t-shirts.